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The values of ex-ante and ex-post communication in dictator games

Langenbach, Pascal - 2016 - Revised version: April 2016

recipients attach to communication opportunities (experiment 2). The first experiment shows that the effect of communication on … two experimentswhich study how the timing of messages affects dictators' decisions (experiment 1) and which value …, recipients in a second experiment reveal a strong preference for pre-decision messages: Their willingnessto pay for pre …

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The values of ex-ante and ex-post communication in dictator games

Langenbach, Pascal - In: Essays in experimental law and economics : …, (pp. 15-37). 2017

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Social norms and preferences for generosity are domain dependent

Erkut, Hande - 2018

Experimental research on generosity has focused predominantly on behavior in the monetary domain, although many real life decisions take place in the non-monetary domain. Investigating generosity preferences in the non-monetary domain is important to understand a large class of situations...

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Gender effects in dictator game giving : women favour female recipients

Baltrusch, Maximilian; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2018 - This version: April 22, 2018

Allowing for a free choice of the recipient's gender in a dictator game (N = 508), we find that women show a substantial gender biased towards females. Adding a charity recipient to the possible choices, the charity becomes the primary recipient and overall transfers increase. Yet, conditioning...

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Ashamed to be selfish

Dillenberger, David; Sadowski, Philipp - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 7 (2012) 1, pp. 99-124

We study a decision maker (DM) who has preferences over choice problems, which are sets of payoff-allocations between herself and a passive recipient. An example of such a set is the collection of possible allocations in the classic dictator game. The choice of an allocation from the set is...

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When are Women More Generous than Men?

Deck, Cary A. - 2010

Previous research on gender differences in behavior has led to seemingly contradictory findings about generosity. From data generated by 290 subject pairs, we find that women are more sensitive than men to the costs of generous actions when deciding whether to be generous. The factors that...

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When are Women More Generous than Men?

Cox, James C.; Deck, Cary A. - 2006

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Carrot or stick? : group selection and the evolution of reciprocal preferences

Herold, Florian - 2003 - This version: July 2, 2003

This paper studies the evolution of both characteristics of reciprocity - the willingness to reward friendly behavior and the willingness to punish hostile behavior. Firstly, preferences for rewarding as well as preferences for punishing can survive evolution provided individuals interact within...

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Risk-tolerant women donate more than men : experimental evidence of dictator games

Müller, Stephan; Rau, Holger A. - 2015

In a within-subjects experiment we test the relation of risk preferences and charitable giving. Women not only give …

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Do Dictator Games Measure Altruism?

Zizzo, Daniel John - 2011

This note paper considers briefly whether dictator games are a good tool to measure altruism. The answer is negative … dictator games and reviews some of its purported enduring appeal. Section 3 criticizes dictator games as a measure of altruism …

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